Kolek planning to go pro
To ger away from Covid, I was watching the replay of Duke Butler, and lo and behold the cut into the last couple minutes with the President...grrrr. Oh, and I still dislike Jon Scheyer.
The Athletic came out with a top 100 list of sports movies. Many, many good ones. Some glaring omissions. Not a fan of the order.Some I would add include "89 Blocks" "All The Right Moves" "Victory" a handful or more other ones. Many might not have seen the documentary "89 Blocks" which is the number of streets in East St. Louis and the story of their highly successful football program during tough off the field circumstances.https://theathletic.com/1703442/2020/03/30/the-athletics-top-100-sports-movies?source=shared-article
I saw this. It was a conversation starter, a relaxing way to waste an hour.To me, the most glaring omission was The Naked Gun, which IMHO had more hilarious baseball scenes than any movie ever.FWIW (not much), I did a similar list (though only top 10) for publication way back in 2001. I had Hoop Dreams at No. 1, Raging Bull at 2 and Rocky at 5. (The Athletic had them at 3, 2 and 5, respectively.)The only film since 2001 that I know for sure would have cracked my top 10 was The Wrestler. Mickey Rourke not winning the Oscar that year was a crime -- hell, even the guy who won it (Sean Penn, for Milk) said Rourke should have.
Many good ones with their list. 89 Blocks gets a high rec from me, especially if you enjoyed "Hoop Dreams".....I recommend the book by Kevin Horrigan entitled "The Right Kind of Heroes" to go along with it.
Thanks, shoot. I had never heard of 89 Blocks. I'll have to try to check it out (and the book too).
Ozark Season 3 is excellent as is the entire series.
Finishing up Season 4 Better Call Saul on Netflix. The Huel storyline with the website is absolutely hilarious.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
With this latest season, Ozark has risen into one of my top shows of all time. So so so good. Season's ending was perfect
Don't talk about the season's ending, please!!!!!!!!!
Won't say any more about it other than the last episode was perfect IMHO.
My son recently got us started watching, How I Met Your Mother. That's a pretty long-running show that I had never seen. We're enjoying it. I have my doubts that we'll make it though 200+ episodes, but for now it's a nice diversion.
Fantastic for about 4 maybe 5 seasons but that shows last two and a half seasons were some of the worst tv worse than post Michael Scott office bad and the ending was absolutely horrific.
I've been watching and enjoying some nature and space documentaries lately. Anybody else getting their science class on?
I'm through eight episodes. Better than season 2, not as good as season 1.What's prevented it from being exceptional is how painfully contrived the Ben plotline has been. Hope that's wrapped up in the last two better than it's been laid out in the first eight.